piá

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Awa-Cuaiquer[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compare Muellama piar.

Noun[edit]

piá

  1. maize

References[edit]

  • Sergio Elías Ortiz, Lenguas y dialectos indigenas de Colombia

Portuguese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /piˈa/ [pɪˈa], (faster pronunciation) /ˈpja/

  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: pi‧á

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Old Tupi pi'a (son, vocative).[1]

Noun[edit]

piá m (plural piás)

  1. (colloquial, South Brazil, chiefly Paraná) kid; child
    Synonyms: menino; see also Thesaurus:menino
  2. (colloquial, vocative, South Brazil, chiefly Paraná) man; dude

Adjective[edit]

piá (invariable)

  1. (colloquial, South Brazil, chiefly Paraná) childish

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

piá

  1. Eye dialect spelling of piar.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “pi'a”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), 1 edition, São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 380, column 1

Further reading[edit]

Spanish[edit]

Verb[edit]

piá

  1. Superseded spelling of pia, which was deprecated in 2010.